1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: There are two ways that you can look at what 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: just happened in the midterm elections. You can look at 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: it as a referendum on candidates that we're weak. You 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: can look at it as an embarrassing moment for Mitch 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: McConnell and proof that Mitch McConnell would rather be the 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: leader in the minority than a majority with conservative candidates 7 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: MAGA candidates. You can also look at the midterm elections 8 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 1: as a referendum that's time to blow up the Republican 9 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: Party and have a civil war, which seems to be 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: where we are headed. And you can also look at 11 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: this from another standpoint, which is Democrats are loving every 12 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: scenario that I just mentioned to you because they know 13 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: that they got away with one. Now you talk about 14 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: this civil war that is brewing right now, it is 15 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: very obvious that there is a civil war brewing, specifically 16 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: between Donald Trump and Rhonda Santis. What did Rhonda Santus 17 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: do wrong? He had a massive red wave in Florida 18 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:56,639 Speaker 1: that undermined Donald Trump's power on the GOP. It showed 19 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: that there are other people out there that are willing 20 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: to lead and can lead in the Republican Party, and 21 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: that is exactly why Donald Trump is attacking Rounda Santis 22 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: is dysanctimonious. It's also the reason why he's threatening his 23 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: political career by saying, I have more dirt to know 24 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 1: more about you than your own wife does. We also 25 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: have a present that's very angry right now. Former President 26 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He was also claiming now that he did 27 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: not pick doctor Oz to be the kid at the 28 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: disaster of Pennsylvania who lost a fetterman, an incompetent individual 29 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: that's clearly incapacitated. He actually threw his own wife under 30 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: the bus, claiming it was Melania's idea. Than he did 31 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: come out and apologize to his wife later. But what 32 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 1: I do know is Democrats are loving all of these scenarios. Now, 33 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: is there a break after this midterm elections? It was 34 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: a disaster because it was clear going into the midterms 35 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,279 Speaker 1: that the leader was Donald Trump, And are people willing 36 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: to now move to another leader like de Santis? I 37 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: think if you read the tea leaves, that's exactly what 38 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: seems to be starting to happen in this country. Mike 39 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: Pence has also come out, the former vice president of 40 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and he had this shocking these shocking words 41 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: that he now has said about Donald Trump. Listen, members 42 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: were barricaded inside the House chamber and in the middle 43 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: of it all, you can see that the President has 44 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 1: tweeted to twenty four PM, the President tweets Mike Pence 45 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: didn't have the courage to do what should have been done. 46 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: It angered me. But I turned to my daughter who 47 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: was standing nearby, and I said, it doesn't take courage 48 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: to break the law. Takes courage to uphold the law. 49 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: I mean, the presence words were reckless. It's clear he 50 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: decided to be part of the problem. Mike Pence shots 51 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: fired at his former ally, his former running mate, Donald Trump. 52 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: Mike Pennce calling Donald Trump on January six reckless. He 53 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: said he endangered me and he endangered my family. Now 54 00:02:58,080 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: why is Mike Pennce saying this now? Because I think 55 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: and he understands that there was a disaster on election 56 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: Day and he's seeing an opportunity to stand out as 57 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: his own man. Now, while all of this is happening 58 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 1: right now, there's something else that has just happened, and 59 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: that is on the Immigration and Border policy. Customs and 60 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 1: Border Protection Commissioner has now resigned at the request of 61 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, there have been a record number of 62 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: migrant crossings in the last year. Democrats learned from the 63 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: midterm elections that this was their achilles heel in many 64 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: of these races on the border, and they're not willing 65 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,839 Speaker 1: to make that mistake. So now, instead of blaming Joe 66 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: Biden for the actual policy of open borders, they are 67 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: now telling the Customs and Border Patrol commissioner to resign, 68 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: making him their scapegoat, trying to imply now moving into 69 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: the presidential hey, hey, hey, we're gonna get things under 70 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: control at the border. Now, this was obviously a policy 71 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: of the Biden administration. Shouldn't listen to this news. Forty 72 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: eight past the hour, the Commissioner of Customs and Border 73 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: Protection resigned at the requests of the Biden administration over 74 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: the weekend after reportedly refusing to step down. I mean 75 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: see Juliet Ainsley is following the story. Juliet, good morning. 76 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 1: So why him? What do we know about why? Now? Well, 77 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: of course there's a lot of pressure on Customs and 78 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: Border Protection, Jose. As we know, they've had a record 79 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: number of migrant crossings in the last year, over two million. 80 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: In the fiscal year that ended at the end of September. 81 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: But besides that, it just seemed that Magnus didn't quite 82 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: get along as well with this administration as his deput did, 83 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: as his deputy, Troy Miller did. Now Troy Miller will 84 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: now be filling in as acting Commissioner. He was already 85 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: acting commissioner for all of twenty twenty one. They chose 86 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: Magnus because he had a law enforcement background. They thought 87 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: that that might be a contribution to CBP, but actually 88 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: it seemed that because he didn't come up through DHA spranks, 89 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: he actually had a fission something that didn't quite work 90 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: out between him and majorcas as well as the White 91 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: House and with NCBP ranks. Now it's not unheard of 92 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: to have some clashes between people in Washington and the 93 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: people who were rank and file doing the mission at 94 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: the border, but in this case, it seem that there 95 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: were a lot of Border Patrol officers who were not 96 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: pleased with Magnus. We saw reports that they said he 97 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: was falling asleep and meetings. 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Democrats 133 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,679 Speaker 1: are learning very quickly from the midterm elections. They are 134 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: looking like they're gonna squeak out the Arizona governor's election. 135 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: Kitty Hobbs is up there right now against Carry Lake. 136 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: We also know that, unfortunately, you have another major problem 137 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: now in Arizona. We have lost that Senate seat, meaning 138 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: the Senate will go be in the power of the Democrats. 139 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: But even in these victories right Arizona, Mark Kelly fifty 140 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: one point six to Blake Masters forty six point three, 141 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: I think you could argue that's a beat down, especially 142 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: knowing what we had go go on and the opportunity 143 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: we had. But Democrats learned from the exit polls. What 144 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: they realized was they can't keep going down this path, 145 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: at least publicly of an open border policy, because it 146 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: will undo them in the presidential That's exactly why they 147 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: have now put pointed a finger at the Customs and 148 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: Border Patrol Commissioner, demanding that he resigned. He's their new 149 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: scapegoat now. He enforced the policy of the Biden administration, 150 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: which was an open border policy. But they needed at 151 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: least look like they are listening to the voters and 152 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,439 Speaker 1: giving a crap. I do I believe the policy of 153 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: the border is going to change. I do not. But 154 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is on a victory lap. Biden on the midterms, 155 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: he said, the American people prove once again, quote the democracy, 156 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: that a democracy is who we are. They're using this 157 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: as a referendum on MAGA candidates. Let me start with 158 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: a few words about the recent elections held in the 159 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: United States. What we saw was the strength and resilience 160 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: of the American democracy. We sought in action, and the 161 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: American people prove once again the democracy is who we are. 162 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: And there was a strong rejection of election deniers at 163 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: every level, from those seeking to lead our states and 164 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: those that seeking to serve in Congress, and also those 165 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: seeking to oversee the elections. And there was a strong 166 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,719 Speaker 1: rejection of political violence and voter intimidation. And there was 167 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: an emphatic statement that in America, the world of the 168 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: people prevails. I've traveled this week and it's been clear 169 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,199 Speaker 1: just how closely the world and our allies and our 170 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: competitors as well have been following our elections at home. 171 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: Excuse me a little cold. And what these elections showed 172 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: is that there's a deep and unwavering commitment in America 173 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: to preserving and protecting and defending democracy. Now, let me 174 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: speak briefly about our agenda over the past few days 175 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: in Egypt. And yeah, you can hear the president. He 176 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: wanted to make that clear to the world. The American 177 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: people proved once again that demcrisy is who we are. 178 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 1: We saw that the strength and resilience of the American democracy. 179 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: This is a victory lap for them. Now there are 180 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: things that they have learned from this election faster than 181 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: we have learned what we needed to learn from these 182 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: midterm elections. I wish right now there wasn't a civil war. 183 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: I wish the president was not taking shots at the santis. 184 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: I wish that Mike Pence wasn't taking shots at Donald 185 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: Trump now. But the wheels are coming off this machine. 186 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: And if that means we rebuild the machine, then so 187 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: be it. But what does that cause us to do it? 188 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: Because the Democrats are now understanding they almost lost and 189 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 1: they should have lost the midterm, and they're making they're 190 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: fixing their mistakes and weaknesses, including forcing the resignation of 191 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: the Customs and Border Patrol head. That's how smart the 192 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: Democrats are learning and how quickly they're learning from these midterms. 193 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: We clearly aren't even anywhere close to where they are 194 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 1: in this game. Now. There is one big thing that 195 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 1: came these midterms. It could be a massive blessing in disguise, 196 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: and that is now the Democratic Party has clearly coalesced 197 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: behind Joe Biden. He is their nominee unless he chooses 198 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: personally not to run for reelection. Now that these mid 199 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: terms are over, in the blood bath for the red 200 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: wave turned into a red mirage, even Nancy Pelosi has 201 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: come out publicly saying that Joe Biden should run again. 202 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, Nancy Pelosi went on the Sunday shows, 203 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,559 Speaker 1: and it made sense for her to do this because 204 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 1: they basically had a victory, even though they're more than 205 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: likely going to lose the House. The fact it wasn't 206 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: a blood bath, as bad as the economy was, as 207 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: high as crime is in this country, as terrible as 208 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: some of the candidates they ran like Fetterman, and as 209 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: bad as a leader, and how underwater Joe Biden was. 210 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,439 Speaker 1: The Democrats had with all that, an amazing Tuesday, if 211 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: you put it in perspective. And she went on on 212 00:11:58,080 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: all the Sunday morning talk shows to make sure that 213 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 1: everybody knew what a big victory this was for Democrats. 214 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: And Nancy Pelosi had this to say to George Stepanopolis 215 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: about President Biden, should he run again? Do you think 216 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 1: President Biden should run again? Yes? I do. President Biden 217 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: has been a great president for our country. He has 218 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: accomplished so much ten million jobs, over ten million jobs 219 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: under his leadership, working with the private sector. Of course, 220 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: he has just done so many things that are so great. 221 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: We knew a lot more to show to tell her. 222 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: But he's put money in people's pockets, vaccines in their arms, 223 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: children back to school, people back to work, for starters, 224 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: creating ten million jobs he has made in America and 225 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: independent by pat passing the chip spill that says we're 226 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: no no longer reliance on those who withhold products that 227 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,559 Speaker 1: enable us to manufacture in our country, the era IRA. 228 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: I just saw him make the speech in Egypt where 229 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:09,599 Speaker 1: he spoke about America's commitment to preserving the planet with 230 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: the legislation the IRA three hundred and sixty eight billion 231 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: dollars in good paying green jobs, clean air, clean water 232 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: for our children, national security issue to stop migrations and 233 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: competition for habitat and food, as well as honoring our 234 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: responsibility to future generations, the packed acting our veterans, the 235 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, all of it with justice, with equity, 236 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: with inclusiveness, with diversity, taking us to a new place. 237 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: He has been a great president and has a great 238 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: record to run on. He's been a great president, and 239 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,959 Speaker 1: he has a great record to run on. Now forget 240 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: the fact that half the problems you'd claimed that he 241 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: solved were created by the president right, the people locking 242 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: down of schools and loss of jobs. But what Speaker 243 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi understands now is because of the survival of 244 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: Democrats in this mid term, President Joe Biden, she now says, 245 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: and the rest of the Democratic Party is saying, should 246 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: run for reelection. If it would have been a bloodbath 247 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: for the Democrats and the midterms, they would have gotten 248 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: rid of Joe Biden. That would have thrown a lifeline 249 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump as well, and it would have been 250 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: a great day for the Trump because for the Trump team, 251 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: because they would have walked out and said, look what 252 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: we did to this country. Look how well we did 253 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: what we did for this country. We gave you this 254 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: red wave. Donald Trump would have definitely been the front 255 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: runner and Joe Biden they would have dismissed. They probably 256 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: would have used the Hunter Biden investigation and just let 257 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: the wheels come off of it to implicate Joe Biden 258 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: and to get rid of him. They would have used 259 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: the Republicans to do that to move on to another candidate. 260 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: But because that didn't happen, now you have Democrats that 261 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: are one hundred percent behind Joe Biden. If he wants 262 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: to run free election. It is his I believe no 263 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: one serious will oppose him in a primary, and I'm 264 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: not sure anybody will oppose him in a primary. You'll 265 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: look at the Republican Party now. We are totally in shambles, 266 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: and we deserve to be. We've got to rebuild this thing. 267 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: The way that we just did things was a disaster. 268 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: The way that we just moved with all of these 269 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: things was a disaster. We made a huge mistake. We 270 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: should have done better, and the in fighting has clearly 271 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: begun now. If there's any silver lining in these mid terms, 272 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: it is that I do believe now we have a 273 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: genuine and a real opportunity to beat Joe Biden if 274 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: we don't screw this up. I do not like, by 275 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: the way, the civil war that's happening right now between 276 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: Trump and De santiss. I think it's a dumb move. 277 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: I don't like the President attacking him the way that 278 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: he is. De Santis is the only state and was 279 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: able to pull off in the only state a genuine 280 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: and authentic red wave. I believe there's room for multiple 281 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: leaders in the Republican Party right now, and to imply 282 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: that I have to pledge allegiance to Donald Trump and 283 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: no one else I can like. That's a bad and 284 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: faulty narrative. It's a bad political mindset. It is one 285 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: that we should not be having to debate. We shouldn't 286 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: be having, but we are right now. And this really 287 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: worries me because I'm afraid now that we're going to 288 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: screw it up even more. Instead, we should be focusing 289 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: on the civil linings of this midterm election. Number one, 290 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: that Nancy Pelosi is still the leader of the Democratic 291 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: Party in the House. And number two that Joe Biden 292 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: is still going to be the leader of the Democratic Party, 293 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: and he's vulnerable and he's underwater. But if we sit 294 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: here and we screw around with Mitch McConnell being our leader, 295 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: that's going to make for a disaster. If we have 296 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: this massive civil war between Donald Trump going after you know, 297 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: de Santis instead of lifting him up, it is going 298 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:09,919 Speaker 1: to be another disaster. Democrats are way smarter when it 299 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: comes to learning from elections. And Republicans are forcing out 300 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,439 Speaker 1: the Customs and Border Protection Commissioner at the request the 301 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: Biden administration. Forcing him to resign tells you they learn 302 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: from this midterm election. They realize that their Achilles Hill 303 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: going into these presidential elections is the border and the 304 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: border issue there. Republicans have to also focus on Georgia. 305 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: As I mentioned on Sunday night and I mentioned it 306 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: Monday in our podcast, we have got to win Georgia. 307 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: We have to coalesce behind Georgia. We have to make 308 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: sure that we win Georgia. If we do not win Georgia, 309 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: we are in serious trouble. Because I do believe that 310 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: the Democrats could move to end the filibuster, pack the 311 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, and add four more senators to unite siate 312 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 1: Senate with statehood. I have no reason to believe that 313 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 1: they wouldn't. I have no reason to believe that the 314 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: Democrats won't go nuclear. They have shown no indication they 315 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: care about this country and our democracy. They've shown no 316 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 1: indication that they care about our constitution. So why now, 317 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 1: all of a sudden would they do that. I just 318 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: think that they are going to do whatever they can 319 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:25,199 Speaker 1: to make sure that they solidify their power. Chuck Schumer, 320 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: he came out and said working with the GOP will 321 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: be easier because they lost the Red Way proved to 322 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 1: be a red mirage he said, the non Maggar Republicans, 323 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: stop letting them lead your party. He's giving advice. Now, 324 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this very carefully. Are 325 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: you going to talk to Mitch McConnell. What does that 326 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: look like. Let me just say this, the American people 327 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: are yearning for us to get things done. And the 328 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 1: American people first, they believe in democracy. I just want 329 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,199 Speaker 1: to finish that last point. The roots of democracy are 330 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: much deeper than a lot of warriors. Were people who 331 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: worried about the election give it credit for and they 332 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: understood democracy was being eroded. But they also are practical. 333 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: They want us to get something done for them. They 334 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: don't expect us to do everything at once, but they 335 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: want us to get something done. And that's why I 336 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: think so many of them chose Democrats over Republicans, because 337 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: we were focusing on what they cared about and what 338 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: they needed, as opposed to just sort of tossing these 339 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: hand grenades across the wall. But I am going so 340 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: I will say to my party, we're not going to 341 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: get everything we want, Like on the guns bill, we 342 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: didn't get everything we want. But let's try to sit 343 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: down with the Republicans and get something done. And even more, 344 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,919 Speaker 1: and just as importantly, I am going to say, who 345 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: the Republicans in the Senate who are not the macarepublicans? 346 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: Stop letting them lead your party, work with us to 347 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: get things done. And I intend to sit down with 348 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell and express that. And I think, just quickly, 349 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,439 Speaker 1: what are you gonna You're sitting down Mitch McConnell this week. No, 350 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I intend the Democrats again being smart here 351 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: saying the American people, we're yearning for us to get 352 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 1: things done. They're going to look like they are one 353 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: party with one leader, with one message. That is the 354 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: opposite of what the Republicans are doing right now. And 355 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: if we don't hurry up and realize that shooting each 356 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: other is a bad idea, DeSantis taking shots from the 357 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: present is a bad idea. It should not be happening, 358 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: certainly not right now. If we don't get our act 359 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: together in Georgia, the Democrats are not only going to 360 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: have a massive what I would refer to as a 361 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: victory in these midterms, but they're going to go into 362 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: the presidential on really good footing. And that's another big problem. Now. 363 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: Before I get into more of this story. I want 364 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: to say thank you and tell you about our good 365 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: friends at Legacy Precious Medals. Without them, the show wouldn't 366 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: be possible. 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There's a third caveat of the takeaways. 383 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,719 Speaker 1: I think at third point, I want to make about 384 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,719 Speaker 1: the mid term elections and what just happened. Mitch McConnell 385 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: is racing to a vote on Wednesday for him to 386 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: continue to be the minority leader in the Senate. He 387 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: does not deserve that job. That is vote that should 388 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: not take place. In fact, even the Democrats aren't doing this. 389 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: They're waiting till after the Georgia runoff so that Warnock 390 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: can vote on who should be the leader in the Senate. Now, 391 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: why is Mitch McConnell, who really screwed up these elections, 392 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: who did not give money to Republican MAGA conservative candidates. 393 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: He hung them out to dry. Why is he trying 394 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 1: to rush this election because he doesn't want there to 395 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: be time for there to be a base that builds 396 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: against him because of this midterm elections. He doesn't want 397 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 1: herschel Walker to be able to vote against him, possibly, 398 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: so they are rushing this election. Why would we re 399 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: elect the guy that just failed us as miserable as 400 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: this failure was in the midterms. We should not be 401 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 1: doing this, And every single one of you that's listening 402 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: right now should be calling your senators, whether no matter 403 00:22:55,760 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: where you are, and telling them to not allow for 404 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,679 Speaker 1: a leadership vote to happen on Wednesday. Last night, I 405 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: was doing Verdict, the podcast that co host was sentaor 406 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz. He had just had a meeting with several 407 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: senators about delaying this vote. Many have come out saying 408 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: they want to they want to delay this vote. Why 409 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 1: because there mad as hell over what just happened, and 410 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: many of them believe that Mitch McConnell should not be 411 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate. In fact, 412 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: I would argue it doesn't need to be a leader 413 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: of the Republican Party in any capacity now because the 414 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: way that he hung out Conservative candidates to dry. I 415 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: want you to hear a little bit of what Senator 416 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz had to say about not just his reaction 417 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: to the midterms, what a disaster it was, but also 418 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: about the politics behind Mitch McConnell trying to force everyone's 419 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: hand Wednesday, immediately before the election has even been settled 420 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: because of the Georgia runoff. Well, Ben, let me start 421 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: out by saying, I am so pissed off I cannot 422 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: even c straight. We add an extraordinary opportunity, We had 423 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: a generational opportunity. This should have been a fundamental landslide election. 424 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: We should have won the House and the Senate. We 425 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 1: should have a thirty forty fifty vote majority in the House. 426 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: We should have fifty three fifty four to fifty five 427 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 1: Republicans in the Senate. And instead, holy crap, the Democrats 428 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: keep the Senate. Worse than that. The Democrats potentially grow 429 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,639 Speaker 1: their majority in the Senate. Worse than that. Yes, we 430 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: take the House, but at best we're going to take 431 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: the House with a couple of seats. Maybe there is 432 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 1: an outside chance we lose the House. I don't think 433 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: we will. I think the numbers are enough that we 434 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 1: will hold onto the House, but it's going to be 435 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: a majority of two nineteen to twenty to twenty one 436 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,120 Speaker 1: to twenty two to eighteen is a majority. So we're 437 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: going to be looking at a two three four vote 438 00:24:55,240 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: majority at best. The rage Americans are feeling across this country, 439 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 1: the rage that I'm feeling, there are almost not words 440 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: to describe it, because this opportunity was screwed up. It 441 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: was screwed up badly, and the people are going to 442 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: pay the price, or the American people the country is 443 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: screwed for the next four years because of this, We're 444 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: gonna see horrible left wing judges confirmed for the next 445 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: two years. Because of this, We're going to see judges 446 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: taking away our free speech rights, our religious liberty rights, 447 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: our Second Amendment rights. It is an enormous missed opportunity, 448 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 1: and I got to say it, it is hard to 449 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 1: describe my feelings as anything other than rage right now. 450 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,400 Speaker 1: One of the things that I still think is so 451 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: shocking is the exit poll data did show that Americans 452 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: were very concerned over the issues of the economy. They 453 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: were very concerned over inflation, they were very concerned over 454 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: parental rights, they were very concerned over all of these 455 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: types of issues that clearly leaned to the Republican candidates. 456 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 1: Yet on election day we still see and Democrats were 457 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 1: as shocked as anybody. They were expecting a bloodbast senator. 458 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: And then they went on TV this weekend on the 459 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 1: Sunday shows, and they were basically sitting there in total disbelief. 460 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 1: They were actually saying out loud, we cannot believe how 461 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: well the Democrats did, comparing it to how bad the 462 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: economy was and how low the presence approval rating was, 463 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: and how low the democrats approval rating was as a party. 464 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 1: Look the Democrats that assumed they were going to get 465 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: utterly obliterated in the House, and the Democrats thought they 466 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,959 Speaker 1: would lose the Senate, and on every objective in disia 467 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: they should have the top issues. A large majority of 468 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 1: Americans believer on the wrong track. They believe the economy 469 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: is terrible. They leave Joe Biden is doing a terrible job. 470 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: The top three issues in the country number one, inflation, 471 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: number two, crime, number three illegal immigration. Democrats are disastrous 472 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: on all three of them. And yet at the end 473 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: of the day, Look, one of the patterns we have 474 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: out of this election, incumbents, by in large one across 475 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,919 Speaker 1: the board. So the voters came in, we said, we 476 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 1: think it's all crap. Let's vote for the guy we 477 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,399 Speaker 1: got right now. And so a whole bunch of incumbents prevailed, 478 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: despite the voters recognizing their lives had gotten a lot worse, 479 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: and yet they reelected the same people who did this. 480 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 1: In terms of whose fault it is, this is going 481 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: to be a discussion We're going to have four weeks 482 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,119 Speaker 1: and months going forward. I think there is plenty of 483 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: blame to go around. Everybody bears some of the blame. 484 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 1: But I will tell you, Look, the issue right now 485 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 1: that I think is critical. The Republican Senate has a 486 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: leadership election scheduled for Wednesday, two days from now. It 487 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 1: would be insane if we reelect the same leadership two 488 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 1: days from now. If we say, hey, nothing happened, everything's good. 489 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: Keep rowing off the waterfall, crash into the rocks, everything's awesome. Listen, 490 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: if you have the number one team in the nation 491 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: and you get crushed, and you get crushed, and you 492 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: get crush you know what happens. They fire the coach. 493 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: The idea that we would have leadership elections on Wednesday 494 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: is insane. I can tell you I have publicly called 495 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: for delaying the leadership elections of the Senate until at 496 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,719 Speaker 1: a minimum after December six, which is when the Georgia 497 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: runoff is, because at this point we don't even know 498 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: who the Republican conference is. Sadly, we know it's a 499 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: minority at best. We're going to have fifty senators and 500 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: with Kamala Harris as the vice president, that means the 501 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 1: Democrats will have a majority. But we don't know who 502 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: the senator from Georgia is. It could be Herschel Walker. 503 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 1: We don't know who the Senator from Alaska is. They're 504 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: still it's gonna be a couple of weeks before they 505 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: reallocate the ranked choice voting, so we don't know who 506 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: the Senator from Alaska will be. And yet what is 507 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: happening is the Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell, is trying to 508 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: force through a vote on Wednesday. Now. One of the 509 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: things to understand people ask, well, gosh, what's a Republican 510 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: leader election like? And I have to admit, when I 511 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: first arrived here ten years ago, I didn't know what 512 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: it would be like. I went to my first one. 513 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: So they do it deliberately immediately after the election. And 514 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: the people that vote, the old retiring senators don't vote, 515 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: So the people who vote in a leadership election are 516 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: all of the new senators coming into the new Senate. 517 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: So you show up when I showed up there in 518 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, I'm a baby senator. They put you in 519 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: a little temporary office down in the basement. You have 520 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 1: like three little offices, which with a bunch of people 521 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: packed in there, you don't know what you're doing. You 522 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: don't even know where the men's room is, and you 523 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 1: immediately walk in and have to vote on leader. And 524 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: they do that because they don't want the freshmen, who 525 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,520 Speaker 1: are the least they have the least hooks in them 526 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: at that point. They don't want them to be able 527 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: to organize and vote against any existing leadership there, so 528 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 1: they try to force a leadership vote through before you 529 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: have a chance to do anything. The first leadership election 530 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: I went to in twenty twelve, I was amazed. I 531 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 1: kind of set back and said, oh, this should be interesting, 532 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: and I assumed the Republican leader was Mitch McConnell then 533 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: would stand up and give a speech and say, hey, 534 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: here's what I want to do. Twenty twelve, Barack Obama 535 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: had just been re elected to a second term. We'd 536 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: had a really disappointing election like this one. I'd got elected. 537 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: I was one of the few bright spots, at least 538 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: from my perspective and not necessarily from mitches of the Democrats' perspective. 539 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: But you know, I was waiting for a Republican leader 540 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 1: to lay out a vision of here's how we're going 541 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 1: to fight against Obama. Here's what we're gonna do to 542 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,479 Speaker 1: press back against these disastrous policies. Then it will amaze you. 543 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: At leadership elections, the leaders don't give speeches, they don't 544 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: lay out agendas, they don't say what they intend to do. 545 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 1: They say absolutely zero about their plans going forward. Instead 546 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: what happens. It was a shocking by the way, because 547 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: if it's a leadership election, you would think and that's 548 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: the first time I'm learning about this. I thought for 549 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: sure there was a Hey, here's why I still think 550 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: I should be the leader. Mitch McConnell, right, this is 551 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. This is what we're gonna how 552 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do things, this is and then would answer 553 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: questions you're saying that will not happen on Wednesday, and 554 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: does not happen in the past either, So I can 555 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: tell you in the past it has never happened. And 556 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: look you point out think back to like when you 557 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 1: and I were in junior high student council elections. Sure 558 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: someone would stand up and say elect me to student 559 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 1: council and if you do, I'll have chocolate ice cream 560 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: in the cafeteria. Like like they'd have some promise of 561 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, and you'd be like, oh, okay, 562 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 1: I like that. I'll vote for you. I naively came 563 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: in and said, okay, I assume that's what the leader 564 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: elections are like. They don't give any speeches at all. Instead, 565 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 1: other senators stand up and give nominating speeches, and the 566 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 1: nominating speeches are like, are these epic poems composed to 567 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: the leaders? And so I've been there ten years. I 568 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: have never voted for or against Mitch McConnell. Why is 569 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: that no one's ever run against him? And every election 570 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: has been a vote by acclamation. In other words, he's 571 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 1: just been adopted by acclamation. We've never had a cast 572 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 1: a vote. My first year I saw that. I was like, okay, 573 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: this is really bizarre. But then two years later, twenty fourteen, 574 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 1: i'd been in the Senate for two years, something new developed, 575 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 1: which is, in twenty fourteen, for the first year, Mitch 576 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: McConnell created a superpack. And Mitch's superpack raises and spends 577 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: about three hundred million dollars every two years to elect 578 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:23,760 Speaker 1: Senate Republicans. I remember sitting there in twenty fourteen, two 579 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: years into my term in the Senate, amazed and horrified, 580 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: in fact, texting Mike Lee, the wonderful conservative from Utah 581 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: and my closest friends. This is terrible because today Mitch 582 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: McConnell is the single largest donor to every single Republican 583 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: senator almost without exception. He doesn't give to my campaigns. 584 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: He didn't give a penny to Mike Lee's campaign six 585 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 1: years ago. He didn't give a penny to Ron Johnson's campaign. 586 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: But Mitch. For most of the Republicans in the Senate, 587 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 1: Mitch is spending ten million, in twenty million, thirty million, 588 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: as much as forty million dollars on their races. So 589 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: most of the Republicans are scared to cross him. I 590 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 1: do think this cycle it may be different. So I 591 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: have publicly called for delaying the leadership elections from Wednesday 592 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,799 Speaker 1: till after the Georgia runoff, which is on December sixth. Now, 593 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,279 Speaker 1: Senator Cruz had a lot more to say than just this, 594 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:23,960 Speaker 1: and if you want to hear the rest of it, 595 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,879 Speaker 1: download Verdict with Ted Cruz, the podcast that co host 596 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 1: with him. You can hear our entire conversation. But the 597 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 1: crutch of what he was saying here I wanted to 598 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,800 Speaker 1: play for you because it was that important. Also, don't 599 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 1: forget to download our podcast and wherever you get your 600 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 1: podcast Ben Ferguson Podcasts, and make sure that you call 601 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 1: your senator tell them to delay the vote on Mitch McConnell. 602 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: This vote should not happen. This vote is a disgusting 603 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,919 Speaker 1: vote that they're trying to ram down our throats. Mitch 604 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: McConnell should not be in leadership anymore, and he is. 605 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 1: He screwed a lot of Republican candidates, didn't give the 606 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,399 Speaker 1: money should have been given to places like Arizona where 607 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,920 Speaker 1: we lost, and it is It is a shame that 608 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: he is still in power right now and we need 609 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 1: to demand that it stop.